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PROGRESS 

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TH E QU EEN CITY 

CHARLOTTE 



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MECKLENBURG 

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NORTH Carolina 




NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN 



STORY OF I 



PROGRESS 

OF THE 

QUEEN CITY 

CHARLOTTE 

AND 

MECKLENBURG COUNTY 

North Carolina 



By W. R. HENRY 



RAY PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 
y' CHARLOTTE, N. C. 

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Copyrighted May 17, 1910 

Ray Printing Company 

Charlotte, N. C. 



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The Avriter has read about all that has been so 
beautifully written of the Mecklenburg Indepen- 
dence Celebration, 20th of May in Charlotte. 
Strange to say, he has failed to see where any 
historic treatment, however brief, has been given 
to the Thirteen Colonies, so foundationally con- 
nected with our great Republic and with the Meck- 
lenburg Declaration of Independence. 

True, there was in the magnificent parade of the 
recent celebration, a gorgeous float, where on, in all 
their grace and beauty, sat as if enthroned, thirteen 
radiant maidens representing the Thirteen Colonies, 
but how many of the forty thousand spectators, 
especially the young folk, had any clear idea of the 
Colonies, the order of their settlement or even their 
names-history that every child should commit to 
memory. 

Since the Colony of North Carolina Avas one of 
the most important of the original thirteen, a brief 
mention of the Sisterhood is deemed pertinent and 
indeed necessary to a proper treatment of the matter 
in hand. 

Virginia, called ^'The Mother of States and 
Statesmen," was settled in A. D. 1607, and through 
the mist of time we can see Sir John Smith there 
at Jamestown, the founder of all the Smiths; and 
the lovely Indian Princess, Pocahontas, the ances- 
tress of John Randolph of Roanoke and other F. 
F. V.'s of the ''Old Dominion." 

The next Colony settled, Avas Massachusetts, in 
1620, the land of the Puritan, where ''Plymouth 
Rock" juts out into human history like some mighty 
peak of the Alps upon its environment, and at 
whose base anchored the "Mayflower," with the 



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^'Pilgrim Fathers," pioneers of religious liberty, 
on December 21, 1620. 

New York came third, and was settled in 1623. 
It is a long jump from the huts that constituted the 
city of New Amsterdam, erected on Manhattan 
Island by the Dutch in 1623, to the present glories 
of our Metropolis, but the leap from those huts 
to the top of New York's skyscrapers of today is 
but a fair measure of American progress. 

The Dutch called their province "New Nether- 
lands,'' and their city on Manhattan Island, New 
Amsterdam, both afterwards taking the name, New 
York, in honor of the Duke of York, brother of 
Charles II. 

New Hampshire, founded in 1629, was first called 
Laconia, and then New Hampshire, after Hamj)- 
sliire county, in England. 

"Maryland, my Maryland," taking its name from 
St. Mary's town on the Potomac river, joined the 
Sisterhood of Colonies in 1634, and became a refuge 
for persecuted Roman Catholics. One of its greatest 
monuments being the "Toleration Act." Lord Bal- 
timore g'ave his name to the Metropolis of Maryland, 
but grander than his, looms the majestic figure of 
"Carrol, of Carrolton." 

Connecticutt came next, in 1635. How often tlie 
story of her "Charter Oak" has thrilled the heart 
of young' America? The English Governor endeav- 
oring to seize her Charter, Ca.pt. Wadsworth carried 
it away, and hid it in the hollow of an oak tree, 
which was thenceforth called the "Charter Oak." 
This reminds us somehow of the ballot box magic 
that has been known since, to some Americans, but 
let it go at that. 

Rhode Island, '^ Little Rhody," clasped hands with 
her big sisters in 1636, and there on Narraganset 



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Bay, we behold the memorial of her hate of tyranny, 
the city of Providence, so named by Roger Williams, 
because there he found shelter through the provi- 
dence of God from the snow of winter and the fire 
of religious persecution, 

Delaware was founded in 1638, by Swedes, descen- 
dants of those flaxen haired warriors who in olden 
time ravaged Europe and marched in victory adown 
the streets of the Seven Hill'd City. 

North and South Carolina, up to the year 1729, 
constituted one Colony, called Carolina. The first 
settlement was made in 1663, at Edenton. at the 
mouth of Chowan river, and was called the Albe- 
marle Colony. Those who live over our Southern 
border who have carped at certain patriotic claims 
of Mecklenburg, to be elaborated later, should 
remember that this Albemarle settlement of Caro- 
lina had set up its government and was in Legis- 
lative session two years before Charleston was even 
started, by William Sayle in 1670. Both Colonies, 
however, were ever afire with the spirit of liberty, 
and both rejected by rebellion, the ^'Fundamental 
Constitutions," or ''Grand Model" of John Locke, 
because they breathed an aristocratic and monarch- 
ical spirit despised by the Colonists. 

<■ ' Virginia had her Pocahontas and Patrick Henry. ' ' 
Massachusetts her "Plymouth Rock and Pilgrim 
Fathers;" Connecticut, her "Charter Oak," but it 
was on the shores of the Old North State, that 
Virginia Dare first saw the light, the first white 
child born in America, and forever by her side, 
through the haze of time we see the grand figure 
of Sir Walter Raleigh, whose name is worn as a 
crown by Raleigh, the Capital of North Carolina. 

New Jersey joined the Colonies in 1664. 

Pennsylvania, "Penn's Woods," was settled in 

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1682 by Quakers, and soon came under the govern- 
ment of the great Quaker, William Penn. His treaty 
with the Indians under a. large elm tree on the site 
of Philadelphia, is one of the most familiar pictures 
in American history, William Penn laid out ^'the 
City of Brotherly Love," Philadelphia, in 1682, and 
'' within a year a hundred houses were built." 
Behold the Quaker Capital today. How glorious tlie 
American spirit. How slow the growth of European 
towns in comparison. 

But before we leave the Colony of Pennsylvania, 
let us consider another object; the Mason and 
Dixon's line, established between Maryland and 
Pennsylvania in 1767, by George Mason and Jere- 
miah Dixon, surveyors appointed by the Kir.g of 
England. 

The poet Campbell wrote of ^Hhe bloodiest pic- 
ture in the book of time," but this "Mason and 
Dixon's line" became in time one of the broodiest 
lines that ever marked the eai'th, its crimsop, now 
happily faded forever, under the cliemic influence 
of National Unity. 

Georgia, splendid Georgia, sometimes called. \ve 
think erroneously, the ''Empire State of the South," 
for that title belongs, we opine, either to Novth 
Carolina or to our Southwestern colossus, Texas, Avas 
settled in the eighteenth century, 1733. As Massa- 
chusetts and Maryland had been asylums for those 
seeking freedom from religious persecuti(ui, so 
Georgia, nnder Governor James Edward Oglethrope, 
its founder, became an asylum for the unfortunate 
poor, fleeing the horrors of English prisons, so 
graphically painted by Charles Dickens. Georgia 
was so named in honor of George II. 

In the order of settlement Georgia was the 



THE REPUBLIC 



Thirteenth Colony, and in view of her magnificent 
deveh)}3ment and her beautiful Capital, she stands 
a majestic refutation of the superstition concerning' 
the number thirteen. 

When the first gun of the American Re^olulion 
^vas fired, the Colonies had a population of thvee 
millions of people. 



iEi)t a^pitbltr 



The Thirteen Colonies emerged from the smoke 
and fire of Revolution, thirteen splendid States, 
Fused into a Republic, American manhood has over- 
come every obstacle, and withstood every shock, 
until today forty-eight stars twinkle on our National 
banner, each symbolizing a Statal-Empire and 
united, form a World-Power whose flag Avherever 
it kisses the breeze tells the oppressed of Earth 
that its silken folds represents a. Government, 
''whose sword is sharp enough, and whose arm is 
strong enough, to reach every rascal that trans- 
cends its laws." 

''Time's noblest offspring is the last," that meant 
the Great Republic. Mr. Gladstone declared, "The 
i\merica.ns have the natural base for the greatest 
continuous empire ever established by man." 
Edward Atkinson, declares that, "instead of eighty 
million inhabitants, the United States could easily 
support one hundred million without increasing the 
area of a single farm, by simply cultivating them 
up to the standard of reasonably good agricul- 
ture," and that "our resources fully developed, 
would support one billion inhabitants." 

Walter Bagehot forty years ago, wrote, "when 
England lost her supremacy in manufacturing, her 

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decline will be as swift as was Rome's after Con- 
stantine transferred the Capital to Constantinople." 

Now mark this, /'The United States snatched the 
primacy in manufactnring- from England in 1880, 
in iron and steel in 1895, and in coal production in 
1900. The United States produces twenty-five per 
cent of the world's gold, thirty per cent of its silver, 
forty-five per cent of its coal, seventy-five per cent 
of its cotton and eighty per cent of its corn." 

The banking power of the United States is now 
$16,000,000,000, equal to the entire banking power 
of the Avorld in 1890; the entire banking power of 
the world outside of the United States is only $21,- 
000,000,000. 

In the Avords of a recent writer: 

''Four years now adds as much to the country's 
wealth as the aggregate was forty-two years ago. 
Every succeeding sunrise in 1907 sees $10,000,000 
added to the wealth of the United vStates. This 
country's wealth is greater than that of the United 
Kingdom and France combined, the second and the 
third of the world's nations, respectively, on this 
roll. 

The greatest romance of the world's annals 
remains untold. Who will write the e^jic of the 
locomotive's conquest; of the proposed sixty thou- 
sand ton ship, of the wireless telegraph, of the aero- 
planes, of the gold, silver, coal, and copper dis- 
coveries and development; of the steamplow, the 
steam-harvester and the labor-economizing appliances 
by which one man does more work, and does it 
better, than four men did it forty-two years agof 
And the rest of this wonder-tale of American expan- 
sion from Lincoln's day to Taft's?" 

The alarmist is abroad in the land. One declares 



THE SOUTH 



that, ''our resources are being" rapidly exhausted." 
Another tells us that ''the opportunities to make 
money are not as good as they were some years 
ag'o." It was Henry H. Rogers who said not long 
since, "Don't be a^ pessimist. Believe in your coun- 
try. There never were so many opportunities as 
there are today. The resources of this land have 
only been scratched." 



(Si}t Bmtl} 



Her vast potentialities, grand history, salubrious 
climate, and just laws, are challenging the attention 
of the world, and the bravery of her men and the 
beauty of her women are known of the nations of 
earth. 

Washington Irving tells us, that "So charming 
was the plain of Granada, under the Moors, so 
refreshing its fountains and so luxuriant its gar- 
dens, watered by the windings of the Zeneil, so 
opulent its valleys where grew in profusion the 
orange and the pomegranate, Avhere grapes hung in 
rich clusters about the peasants cottage, and where 
the groves were musical Avith the song of the night- 
ingale, so great the prosperity and happiness, Avhere 
all had once been but a barren Avaste, that the 
inhabitants imagined that Heaven Avas situated in 
that part of the sky Avhich overhung the plain." 

This is a perfect picture of the South, if Ave Avill 
add thereto, "education and the smokestack." as 
she has become, since she staggered — 

"Out from the valley of death and tears; 

What says the stranger to such vitality? 
Flung on the sliore of defeat, 



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Hardly the survivors have sprung to their feet, 
When the nations are thrilled by the clarion words 
Coming up from the South, Excelsior, Forward." 
She is the most American part of America. The 
current of her citizenship is unpointed by foreign 
isms and if the time ever comes, predicted by Lord 
Macaulay, when our institutions will be strained 
to the l^reaking point, then may the Republic 
rely upon that spirit of the South that wrote 
Alamance, and Moore's Creek, and Cowpens, and 
King's Mountain, and Guilford Court House on the 
scroll of fame. The flag of the Republic can never 
droop, come what may, so long as Southern man- 
hood survives, for the Stars and Bars, bequeathed 
Southern valor forever, to the defense of the Stars 
and Stripes: 

''Four short years Ave saw it gleam, 
A people's hope, and then refurled. 
Even while its story was the theme 
Of half the world.'' 

Behold the South of today! Have we not "the 
mason's chisel chirping all over the land?" Do 
not new enterprises of all kinds, start in crowds, 
"like larks rise and darken the air in winter time." 
Can we not see, "in our banks, piles of glittering 
gold, amiable as Hesperian fruit ; heaps of silver, 
shimmering like the sheen of the sun-kissed hillocks 
on the Jungfrau's brow, and stacks of bills, which 
seem to whisper a symphony as they rustle." Now 
this is not hyperbole — this is not exaggeration. 
Is it? 

Read the following words of Mr. Edmonds, the 
brilliant Editor of the Manufacturer's Record: 

"The South has increased the capital invested 
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THE SOUTH 



in its cotton mills from $92,000,000 to $250,000,000, 
and nearly trebled the number of its spindles, hav- 
ing: increased the 3,693,000 which it had in 1897 to 
9,760,000 in 1906. During: the same period the 
South built 15,901 miles of railroad, bringing its. 
total mileage to 64,035. 

'^Ten years ago it was still a question open to 
discussion as to whether the South could success- 
fully compete with New England in the manufac- 
ture of cotton goods. This question has been for- 
ever settled ; conditions have been reversed, and it 
is now a question whether New England can com- 
pete with the South. 

''Within the decade every important problem 
confronting the iron and steel interests of the 
South has been solved. As in cotton, so in iron; 
it is no longer a question whether Alabama can 
compete with Pennsylvania, but it is already seen 
that the time is coming when it will be a question 
whether Pennsylvania can compete with Alabama. 

''Louisiana has taken rank as the dominant power 
in the world's sulphur market. Connected with 
phosphate and sulphur interests is the development 
of the cottonseed oil industry, yielding important 
ingredients as the basis of fertilizer manufacture. 
These combinations have likewise been not an un- 
important factor in inducing great packing interests 
of the West to establish themselves in the South, 
especially in Texas. 

' ' The discoveries of oil in Texas and Louisiana 
and Indian Territory have developed a vast industry 
in the Southwest undreamed of 10 years ago. 

"Energy long running to waste in the rivers 
whose source is the Appalachian Mountains is being 
utilized in hydro-electric work on a scale which is 



THE SOUTH 



making' the South the greatest centre in America, if 
not in the world, for the development of hitherto 
unutilized water-powers for electrical energy. 

''Within the decade the country has come to 
look upon the South as a main reliance for its 
supply of lumber, as it long has been the source 
of naval stores of this country and for much of the 
world. The comparatively humble beginnings in 
furniture-making have expanded into a great indus- 
try, making North Carolina the chief rival of 
Michigan." 

We are told that, prior to 1865, the South had 
to go to the North or to England for practically 
all of its cotton goods, while now it is using about 
as many bales of cotton in its mills as the North. 

Says an eminent authority, ''Nearness to the raw 
material and cheapness of land, labor and rents, will 
probably give the South, in the not distant future, 
almost as much of a monopoly in cotton manufac- 
turing as it now has in cotton growing. The Trade- 
man's Annual said in January last: 

"During the last cotton year we sent out of the 
country about 8,500,000 bales of raw cotton; fully 
two-thirds of the crop; but such is the growth of 
the cotton industry in the United States that the 
South now contains 700 mills, operating nearly 
10,000,000 spindles and 1908 will add fully 20 more 
plants. The States of North and South Carolina 
have no less than 400 plants with 6,300,000 spindles. 

Notwithstanding this consumption of cotton, the 
United States Department of Agriculture declares, 
that "only one third of the world's population 
regularly wear clothes, that half are partially clad, 
and that the rest habitually go naked." What 
a future for the Sontli! There are the millions of 



NORTH CAROLINA 



China and Japan to be clad, and there lies the 
mighty Pacific, the sapphire trail of onr trade to 
the Orient. Before 1915, the Panama canal, the 
greatest triumph of the centuries, will open the door 
of the East to the cotton fields and factories of 
the South. 



We have shown how the Colonies became the 
Republic; that the Republic is the greatest power 
on earth; that the South is the most favored section 
of the Republic, and now we confidently assert 
that North Carolina is the best part of the South. 

Her history is luminous with heroic deeds, and all 
that she needs is Capital, to make her the equal 
in wealth of any State of the Union. She has 
climate to sell. As the writer said in an address 
some years ago : 

Every vegetable or agricultural product to be 
found in the temperate zone grows luxuriantly in 
her soil; her wheat is unexcelled; her cotton takes 
rank with the best, except — perhaps, the Sea Island ; 
no State of the Union can surpass or even compare 
with her numerous and valuable and beautiful 
minerals; zircon deposits mined and used for the 
incandescent gas-light burners, which promise to 
rival the electric in brilliancy and the lovely Hidden- 
ite stone, rarer, richer and more beautiful than the 
most costly emerald, are found no where on earth, 
but in the bosoms of her hills and mountains. Her 
several species of woods, equal in quality and excel 
in number those of any other State; her tobacco 
surpasses any in the Union and is equal if not 
superior to any in the world. She possesses rich 



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stores of gold, silver, copper, and iron, of as good 
quality as any in Alabama or Pennsylvania. Her 
pasture lands of the oast and west, are as good for 
raising sheep and cattle as the richest plains of 
Texas or Australia. 

Truly, it may be said of those who live within 
her borders : 

^'The Lord, thy God, hath brought thee into a 
good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains 
and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, 
a land of barley and vines and fig trees and pome- 
granates, a land wherein we may eat bread without 
scarceness, a land Avhose stones are iron, and out 
of whose hills we may dig brass." 

"Her valleys laugh and sing, 
Forests and mountains ring, 
The plains their tribute bring. 
The streams rejoice." 

Already surpassed by only two States in cotton 
manufacturing, she imperatively demands more fac- 
tories. Is this not true? 

Go ask her streams, as they flow onward to the 
sea with a force it is calculated, sufficient to run 
the looms of Leeds, Lowell, Manchester, South Caro- 
lina and London, and hear them answer, ''Yes," in 
the soft sweet tones of rippling waters. 

Go ask her cotton fields, with their snowy rich- 
ness, founded alas, too often, on unpaid for guano 
and mortgaged for Chicago meat. 

In this land of the South, North Carolina is 
joyously situated. She is caressed by her Sister 
South Carolina, ''wdiere God pours out His floods 
of sunshine; in whose groves the mocking bird 
swoons with his own melody," and the hum of 



"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CAROLINAS." 

whose factories warns Massachusetts, that she will 
yet beat her along the ways of peace; and by Vir- 
ginia, whose every mountain side and valley is 
vibrant of battles past, of heroic deeds, of splendid 
character; Virginia, "Where new cities now^ blos- 
som in the track of war, tokens of eternal friend- 
ship between sections; while just beyond North 
Carolina's cloud-capped mountain heights sits in 
regal grandeur her lovely daughter, Tennessee. 

Yes, ''The South is the Klondike of America, 
without the perils of ice and snow, and it is here 
that the great fortunes of the future are to be 
made. ' ' 



As the South is the best part of the Republic and 
North Ca-rolina the best part of the South, so is 
Charlotte the wealthiest and most progressive cit}^ 
and section of North Carolina. 

Taking her name from the German Princess, 
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, afterwards 
Queen to George the Third, Charlotte has the Teu- 
tonic spirit of conquest; the solidity and thrift of 
the Scotch and the geniality and impulses of the 
Irish, her backbone is Scotch-Irish. 

There is no better way to present the pivotal 
facts about the city of Charlotte, with her climate 
as delightful as that of Southern France; with her 
annual mean temperature of 60 degrees; with her 
seven hundred and forty-three feet elevation above 
the brine; with her charming environment, there 
is no better way to emphasize her progress and 
prosperity than by quoting the words of Maj. J. 
C. Hemphill, the brilliant Editor of the Charleston 

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"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CAROLINAS." 

News and Courier, who on returning to bis own 
grand old city from Cliarlotte recenly, Avrote these 
words : 

*^The freight business of the town yields the rail- 
roads $2,000,000 the year. More than $1,000,000 
has been invested in new buildings during the last 
year. In eleA^en years the number of telephones 
in the town has increased from 130 to 2,557. The 
annual receipts of the postoffice amounts to $114,- 
600. Within one hundred miles of Charlotte there 
are 369 cotton mills operating 4,775,000 spindles, 
110,300 looms and representing a capital of $140,- 
000,000. There are seven banks in the town with 
total assets of $9,976,000. The assessed valuation 
of the property in Charlotte in 1908 was $15,415,715, 
jH-opt^ii-ty being assessed at 35 per cent of its 
market value. The bonded indebtedness of the 
town is $1,340,000, and the tax for city purposes is 
$1.20 on a valuation of $100. About 30,000 bales 
of cotton are marketed in Charlotte annually.. Last 
year the cotton buyers of Charlotte purchased not 
"less than 300,000 bales of cotton. The annual value 
of the production of twenty cotton mills, six trouser 
factories, seven machine shops and three cotton oil 
mills last year was $10,725,000. 

Charlotte has twenty-six miles of water mains 
and the daily capacity of its waterworks is 15,500,- 
000 gallons. It has 49 miles of sewers, 53 miles 
of paved and macadam streets, 300 arc lights, 3 
daily papers, 3 colleges, 3 preparatory schools, 16 
graded schools with 5,004 children enrolled, 60 
churches, 2 libraries, 5 hospitals, an auditorium with 
a capacity of 4,500, a Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation building which cost $125,000, a new twelve- 
story office building which cost $325,000 and a new 
fire-proof hotel which cost $290,000. 

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"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CAROLINAS." 

There is nothing' mythical or alleo-orical about 
Charlotte. It is one of the greatest towns in the 
South, It is real. One of the greatest factors in 
the development of the town is D. A. Tompkins. He 
started in Edgefield county, South Carolina, and 
he has '^made good" in Charlotte. What a wonder- 
ful thing it is for any part of the country to have 
had a town like Charlotte built up by the energies 
of its own people! It differs from Atlanta in the 
respect that Charlotte has made itself and it is 
as firm as the everlasting hills by which it is 
surrounded." 

Right here, we would call attention to the bro- 
chure of Mr. Wade H. Harris, named ''Charlotte," 
which is rich Avith facts about the city, told in 
most elegant style; to the prose poem and lovely 
descriptive monograph of Miss Julia M. Alexander, 
entitled, ''Charlotte in Picture and Prose;" to the 
history of Mecklenburg County, by Dr. J. B. Alex- 
ander, redolent with suggestions of that old civiliza- 
tion of the South, which vanished with the battle- 
smoke of Gettysburg; that ''civilization, with its 
white-columned mansions under cool spreading 
groves, its orange trees, waving their sprays of 
snowy blossoms, and its cotton fields stretching 
away to the horizon, alive with toiling slaves, who 
sang as they worked from early morn till close 
of day; that civilization with its pomp, its pride, 
its revelry, its splendid manhood, its soft-voiced 
dazzling beautiful women, and its Code, which 
held woman as spotless as a star, and which taught 
man to regard her with the respect and love accord- 
ed by the Romans to the Vestals." I remember 
that civilization, and I thank God that I do, "it 
was the high tide of earthly glory." But there 
are spots on the sun. What is perfect? Negro 

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"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CAROLINAS." 

slavery was the curse of the South. The miasmatic 
poison, that paralyzed her progress. Cherishing 
then sweet memories of the old time, we clasp 
hands with the progressive spirit of the New. 
Those who wish to read an exhaustive, lucid, inter- 
esting and scholarlv history of Mecklenburg County, 
should read the history by Mr. D. A. Tompkins. 

Charlotte had a population of 8,500 in 1880, now 
grown to 45,455; she has two of the principal gold 
mines in the South, the Rudisill and St. Catherine, 
and in the adjoining county of Cabarrus, in 1886, 
a nug'get of gold was found, that weighed 22 pounds ; 
there are 83 gold mines in Mecklenburg County, 
and it is rich in quarries of varieaated granite; 
here it is that the beautiful black-spotted leopardite 
is found; Charlotte, whose Banks are unsurpassed 
for solidity, was one of the four cities in the South, 
that did not issue scrip, when the financial blizzard 
struck our country in 1907, 

Surrounded by a fertile and beautifully disposed 
country, one hundred and ninety miles of macadam 
roads, famous as the '^ Mecklenburg Road System," 
renders the movement of farm products a wonder, 
in contrast with the hauling over the old roads, 
of even as late a time as twenty years ago. 

''The Queen City," is said to be the greatest 
Building and Loan center in the United States in 
proportion to population. It is to these agencies 
that Charlotte owes so many of her beautiful and 
happy homes. 

Her twenty-six miles of Electric Railway, with 
forty cars, is one of the best car systems in the 
South, and the development of the same, has been 
principally the work of her progressive citizen, E. 
D. Latta, who will soon extend his system to the 
Catawba river, Avhere during the summer months, 

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"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CAROLIiNAS." 

one may visit minature Coney Islands and Luna 
Parks, 

Charlotte enjoys the advantage of a central situa- 
tion between New York and New^ Orleans, and is 
today the headquarters of the Southern Cotton Mill 
industry. Says another, '4t is the home base for 
the cotton mills. It is to Charlotte that Capitalists 
come, when they want a mill built and equipped, 
and it is to Charlotte that mill men send their mach- 
inery when it is in need of repairs." 

The centrality of Charlotte is apparent — with her 
Railroads, with 34 passeng-er trains daily and then, 
there is the Clinchfield System, which backed by 
untold millions, and which beginning in the vast 
coal fields of West Virginia and surrounding 
States, has realized the Capitalistic dream of years, 
by boring through or summounting the granite 
obstacles and dizzy heights of the Apalachian 
Range, extending its gleaming length to the 
Atlantic, a system which to the South, is second 
in importance, only to the Panama Canal. 

It is said that the wisest of engineers condemn 
a bridge, whatever the cost, on which birds will not 
roost. Now one of the most striking features about 
Charlotte is that it is the home of more than five 
hundred traveling men. And let me say, the drum- 
mer is a splendid fellow. I have known him, "he 
is the thermometer and barometer of nations, the 
advance agent of General Prosperity," and he can 
sell goods all day, and after supper talk more 
politics and philosophv and diplomacy and states- 
craft and religion and business than — well, anybody. 
A splendid big hearted citizen is the drummer, and 
it is a good sign that he likes Charlotte. 

But even the briefest presentation of Charlotte 



"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CAROLINAS." 

would be insufficient without reference to some of 
her public buildinos, places of historic interest, 
vistas and elegant residences. This must be brief. 
Only a few of the many can be named. It is 
pleasing- to note that '^The Queen City" likes the 
Colonial style of architecture, though rich in all 
kinds. One viewing Charlotte would be attracted 
by the picturesque residence of Mrs. '^Stonewall" 
Jackson ; the beautiful home of A. H. Washburn ; 
the residence of the late Dr. John H. McAden, 
veteran in war and peace, one of North Carolina's 
chief figures in niauufacturing as well as in bank- 
ing; in giant elms embowered stands the grand 
Colonial dwelling of C. W. Tillett. Beautiful archi- 
tectural creations are the residences of C. H. Rob- 
inson, the Liddell's, F. O. Hawley's, Jr., and on 
East Avenue of B. F. Withers, whilst the home of 
John S. Blake, has the aristocratic bearing and 
elegant proportion of an English '^seat." The 
''Retreats" of R. 0. Alexander, Charles L. Alex- 
ander, B. D. Heath, of Georae E. Wilson, R. M. 
Miller, R. A. Dunn. W. R. Burwell and of S. S. 
McNinch, would add charm to ''Peach Tree Street," 
the "Fifth Avenue" of Atlanta; E. D. Latta's 
magnificent residence is an epic of art and comfort ; 
Judge Bynums spacious home and grounds, with 
roses and magnolias, and Dr. (leo. W. Graham's 
home, typical of the South, would delight 
the soul of John Howard Payne. In front 
of the ancestral residence of Judge Frank I. 
Osborne stands a. majestic oak, which was vigorous 
in its young tree-hood, before the American eagle 
twisted for the second time the tail of the British 
Lion; "Woodman spare that tree;" it is the living 
witness of more than a century of human history. 
But after all the chief promise of Charlotte is 

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"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CAROLINAS." 

the fact, that she is the center of the greatest 
hydro-electric power system in the United States, 
except Niagara, if not in the AvorkL 

Take the chart recently published by the Southern 
Power Company, capital' of $10,000,000, which Com- 
pany controls 110 miles of water rights along the 
Catawba, and glance at the data concerning the 
Whitney Company, on the Yadkin, whose invest- 
ments have already exceeded five million dollars, 
and it will appear that within sixty miles of Char- 
lotte, '^exists water power enough to develop 1,000,- 
000 electrical horse power, which will be conducted 
by transmission lines to half the mills of the South. ' 

Many of the mills in and about Charlotte are 
already being run with electricity. 

There is a book called, ''Walks About London," 
but a mau wishing to see Charlotte, her splendid 
reaches of bitulithic and Tarvia paved streets invit- 
ing him, would prefer a run about the city and 
her environs in one of her three hundred auto- 
mobiles. 

Without reference to order, Ave will mention a few 
of the objects that Charlotte would show him- — 
some of the jewels that glitter upon her brow : 
The City Hall, The Post Office, U. S. Assay Office, 
and Monument to the gallant Shipp, one of the 
heroes of the Spanish-American war; her new^ and 
splendidly equipped Sanitorium; the Presbyterian, 
St. Peter's and Mercy General Hospitals, three of 
the best in the South; the mammoth new twelve 
story Realty building, which contains the offices of 
the Charlotte National Bank, unsurpassed for ele- 
gance in the whole country; her colossal Auditorium, 
her gem of an Academy of Music, and her new 
Y. M. C. A. building, which cost one hundred and 
twentv-five thousand dollars. 



"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CAROLINAS." 

Continuing his ride, for him, History avouIcI roll 
back the curtain of the years, as he gazed upon 
the plate which marks the place where Cornwallis 
quartered and planned to crush the hornets, the 
Mecklenburg militia, that stung him so badly along 
East Avenue that he called Charlotte the '^Hornet's 
Nest;" anon, our sightseer would feel his blood 
jump as he looked upon the spot where Jefferson 
Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy stood, 
when he received the shocking news that President 
Lincoln had been assasinated — Abraham Lincoln — 
the best friend the South had in the North, and pres- 
ently, he would come to the memorial of George 
Washington's visit to Charlotte, May 25, 1791. 

A breath of fresh air and a spin ot a few miles, 
and our visitor ^' doing" Charlotte might behold 
the monument which marks the birthplace of An- 
drew Jackson, seventh President of the United 
States, the spot being then in Mecklenburg, now in 
Union County, and later, he might visit the scene 
where James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the 
United States, first saw the light. President Polk, 
who through Taylor and Scott, j^lanted ^^Old Gloiy" 
in triumph on the battlements of the Capital of the 
Montezuma's and 'Svhipped Mexico before break- 
fast." 

On returning to the city, our tourist would behold 
the great dome of Mecklenburg's splendid Court 
House, which marks the spot where once stood 
Queen's Museum, or Queen's College, the genesis 
of higher education in this section of the South ; 
fifty lawyers minister at Mecklenburg's altar of 
justice, and Charlotte's imposing law building and 
especially its library, would delight the heart of 
Blackstone himself. 

Not far from Charlotte, is Davidson College, one 

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"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CAROLINAS." 

of the most noted male institutions in the South, 
and ^Hhe Queen City" has the 2:rea.test Graded 
Schools in the ''Old North State." 

Magnificent Elizabeth College, with its beautiful 
drives and parks, and the spacious grounds and 
imposing facade of the Presbyterian College ; two of 
Charlotte's chief jewels, are perfectly equipped for 
the intellectual advancement of woman. 

Verily education is the anchor of our institutions. 
Let each State but educate its children, its young 
men and young women, and then ''above the 
bayonet and the plume, shall appear the lilies of 
love and the palms of peace." 

Fifty-five ministers and sixty churches, attest 
Charlotte's earnestness in matters spiritual, whilst 
fifty-five physicians and surgeons guard the physical 
body. 

The Carnegie Library, is a Grecian poem in stone 
and brick; the new Baptist Church, a mixture of 
Byzantine and other architecture, is unique and 
impressive; St. Peter's, the Episcopal fane, has the 
repose of power; the Methodist Church bears 
marked resemblance to some cathedral of the Old 
World, the iSecond Presbyteriaii, Lutheran, and 
Catholic Churches are noble edifices, but without 
invidious distinction, the First Presbyterian Church, 
in its sombre grandeur is one of most churchly 
churches on this side the Atlantic. 

The elegant hotels of Charlotte have made it 
"the Convention City," the Selwyn having been 
built at a cost of two hundred and ninety thousand 
dollars; the Buford makes the traveler feel at 
home, and the Leland has as its presiding genius 
Col. Henry Williams, one of the most genial hotelists 
in the entire country; "Stonewall," and Central 
has a large clientelle, and there are others. 

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"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE CHROLINAS." 

In elegant offices in the Selwyn, is situated the 
dynamo that is making Charlotte hustle, that 
splendid organization, by name, '^The Greater Char- 
lotte Club," under the engineering management of 
W. T. Corwith. 

Charlotte has fifteen newspapers a.nd periodicals, 
three dailies, the Charlotte Daily Observer; the 
Evening Chronicle, and the Charlotte News; 

'^The arch of the Press is the bow, 
Of promise to nations unborn; 

Serene and majestic, its span 
Shall reach and encircle each shore, 
A symbol and token to man. 
The deluge of darkness is o'er." 

The drama of Appomattox, hurried the President 
of the Confederacy and his Cabinet Southward, and 
on the 20th of April, 1865, eleven days after the 
surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, the 
Confederate Cabinet had its headquarters in the 
building now occupied by the '^ Charlotte Daily 
Observer," and '^President Davis' " private room, 
is now the office where Hon. J. P. Caldwell, former 
Editor of the '^ Observer" wrote those editorials 
whose wisdom, political acumen, and conservatism 
have long since made this distinguished citizen of 
Charlotte, known througout our land. 

Strange, is it not, that of two great wars, one 
found its inspiration and beginning in Charlotte, 
the other, at the dissolution of the Confederate 
Cabinet, substantially its ending and its grave. 

24 



THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION 

Hrrklfitburg Sprlarattntt af ^nht^mhmtt 

' ' Cherished memories of the past constitutes the 
moral force of nations," and was it not Father 
Ryan who said, ''A land without memories is a 
land without liberty?" 

Veneration for the deeds of their ancestors has 
kept ever present in the hearts of all Mecklen- 
burgers and in the hearts of all North Carolinians 
as well, an undying love for and allegiance to the 
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. 

The ''Queen City" holds to it as her crown 
jewel, and even as the Brandenburg Gate, with its 
Car of Victory stands at the entrance to the City 
of Berlin, as an inspiration to the Teutonic heart, 
so the citizens of Charlotte and of Mecklenburg 
County have placed their great iron tablet on 
''Independence Square," in their beautiful city, and 
have erected their monument in honor of the 
"Signers" of the Declaration of May 20th, 1775, 
and as an inspiration to this and future genera- 
tions of American citizens. 

Prior to the date last named, the Colonies had for 
a long time, been in a state of ferment, under the 
oppressions of England. Before that year, in differ- 
ent sections, Americans had poured out their blood 
in repelling injustice. The sons of Mecklenburg, as 
the writer understands it, have never claimed that 
they were braver than other Colonists, but they 
assert and establish beyond sane controversy, the 
greater truth, that is to say, the patriots of Meck- 
lenburg County, North Carolina, were the first to 
put into formal declaration, the colossal and nation- 
building idea of separation from the Mother Country. 

Patrick Henry's immortal speech in the Virginia 
Assembly had fired the American heart and the 

25 



THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION 

l)laze lie kindled, smouldered under tyrannic aggres- 
sion until it burst into flame in Charlotte, May 20th, 
1775. 

When Edmund Burke made his great speech for 
''Conciliation," when Pitt declared in the House 
of Commons, ''In my opinion this kingdom has 
no right to la}' a tax on the colonies. America is 
almost in open rebellion. Sir, I rejoice that 
America has resisted," Avhen Lord Camden said, in 
the House of Lords, "Taxation and representation 
are inseparably united. God has joined them. No 
British Parliment can separate them. This position 
I repeat, and will maintain to my last hour," they 
merited the gratitude of all Americans forever, but 
not one of them had even considered a separation 
of the colonies, they simply stood for the repeal of 
oppressive legislation. 

Carpists have denied the existence of the Meck- 
lenburg Declaration of Independence, but its truth 
is fixed in history by evidence and authority, 
stronger than that which supports many of its 
universally accepted facts. 

The "Mecklenburg Declaration" is as well 
grounded in history as the Habeas Corpus Act, the 
landing of the Mayflower, or the execution of 
King Charles the First. 

From 1825 to the present time, the event has been 
celebrated from time to time, and many of the 
most illustrious men of the nation have declared 
the Declaration authenic. Two of its ablest cham- 
pions have been Dr. George W. and Professor 
Alexander Graham, of Charlotte. Then there is 
the overwhelming authority of the Moravian records 
and the unanswerable arguments of Mr. Moore's 
book, in addition to which Dr. Hawks, of New 
York, Governor Swain, United States Senator 

26 



THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION 

Zebulon B. Vance and others have sustained it, 
whilst Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, Senator 
Vorhees, Thomas F. Bayard, Adlai Stevenson, Vice- 
President of the United States; David B. Hill, of 
New York, and other celebrities have, prior to Mav 
20th, 1909, attended its celebration. 

The writer of this monograph, has the honor of 
advancing an authority in behalf of the Mecklen- 
burgers Declaration, Avhich seems to have escaped 
the attention of all tliose who have spoken on the 
subject. This authority leaves the matter open 
to no further controversy. 

''Complete in eight volumes. Reviewed, Verified 
and endorsed by the Professors of History in Five 
American Universities, with an Introduction bv 
Moses Coit Tyler, A. M. L. H. D., Professor of 
American History in Cornell University." Such is 
the inscription that appeal's on the title page of 
the ''Library of Universal History." 

Now what does this monumental and indisputable 
authority say of the subject under consideration? 
Turn to page 2507, Vol. 7, and there we find written, 
"In May, 1775, a Convention of Delegates, sitting 
at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 
declared their constituents absolved from all alleg- 
iance to the British crown. This is known as the 
Mecklenburg Declaration." 

If that is not conclusive of the controversy that 
has raged over this claim of the Mecklenburgers, 
then, like the Captain of Mohammed, we ouglit 
to burn the libraries. 

"Then up with granite column inscribed with lofty 

phrase, 
Let Mecklenburg's achievements resound through 

endless days; 

27 



CELEBRATION MECKLENBURG DECLARy\TION 

Her sons were first to utter the disenthralling word, 
Let men proclaim their deathless name till all the 
world has heard." 



ffi^bbrattnn af tJ|0 ifflrrklpttburg Sprlarattnn 
cf Mh^pmhmct, iHay 2B% 1909. 

History in luminous letter, will tell future genera- 
tions that William Howard Taft, President of the 
greatest Republic the world has known, came to 
Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 20th, 1909, and 
with burning eloquence and convincing logic, set 
the seal of his approval and admiration, upon the 
Declaration of the patriots of May 20th, 1775. 

Hon. William Walton Kitchin, Governor of North 
Carolina, who on the 19th, had been the central 
fi-gure of the splendid festivities of '^Governor's 
Day," and who on the night of the 19th was the 
guest of honor at a magnificent reception at the 
elegant home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Tillett, with 
his grand bugle like voice, and in happiest vein, 
introduced the President to five thousand people in 
Charlotte's Auditorinm, who went wild with enthu- 
siasm as he arose to address them. The following 
excerpts taken from the President's speech, will 
show how he crushed the icons who Avould rob 
Charlotte of her glory. The President said : 

''We are here to celebrate a declaration of Inde- 
pendence. There are some unregenerate persons 
who live in South Carolina and elsewhere that for 
various motives have cast a doubt upon the claim. 
Now anybody that comes to Charlotte wdio is not 
willing to admit in the full the Declaration of 
Independenc made in Mecklenburg, is in the position 



CELEBRATION MECKLENBURG DECLARATION 

of a man of whom n lord justice of the Court of 
Appeals of Ireland told me. I met him in Canada. 
He had a good deal of experience in courts, and he 
was redolent with Irish stories. He said that he 
was holding court in the County of Tipperary, and 
that a man came before him and a jury charged 
in the indictment with manslaughter, and that the 
evidence showed that the deceased had come to his 
death by a blow from a blackthorn stick in the 
hands of the defendant; but the evidence also 
showed that the man who died had a 'paper skull,' 
as it is called in medical parlance — unduly thin. 
The verdict brought in was that of guilty of man- 
slaughter/ and his lordship called the man before 
him, and asked him whether he had anything to say 
Avhy the sentence of the court should not be pro- 
nounced upon him. The defendant, turning to his 
lordship said, 'No, your lordship, I have nothing to 
say, but I would like to ask one question.' 'What, 
my man, is that?' said he. 'I would like to ask 
'What the devil a man with a head like that was 
doing in Tipperary?' I would like to add in expla- 
nation of my position, what the devil a man who 
does not believe in the Declaration of Mecklen- 
burg is doing in this presence? 

"Now it is a fact that by reason of the lax 
government, which Great Britain was able to give 
our colonies — I say 'lax' — it was lax, but it was 
unjust by tits and starts, we were — ^our ancestors 
were — the best prepared people for self-government 
that ever assumed an independent government. They 
had had 200 years of independence in the sense 
of distance from the home government. When 
brought to mind they were attacked occasionally 
by such tyranny as Governor Tryon manifested in 
North Carolina, and as Avas manifested bv other 



CELEBRATION MECKLENBURG DECLARATION 

governors at dift'ereiit times throughout the other 
colonies, but all that time we were gathering' experi- 
ence, we were gathering a sense of responsibility 
as to our own communities, so that when in '75 
you declared your independence here, and in '76 we 
all declared our independence at Philadelphia, we 
were in a condition with men as great, as able, 
as full of the knowledge of statecraft, as any 
nation in Europe or any nation that ever lived, to 
step into the ranks of nations and carry on a 
government worthy the consideration of the entire 
world." 

In 1875, the New York Herald in its special report 
of the Mecklenburg Celebration of that year, 
attached special importance to the honor done the 
flag, the warmth of the greeting extended Northern 
guests, the healing and unifying influence of the 
re-vivified spirit of Colonial days, and argued that 
the Republic need not fear that Southern sectional- 
ism, born of the war, would militate against the 
National Celebration to be held at Philadelphia the 
succeeding year, 1876. 

But how much grander picture at the Charlotte 
Celebration of 1909! Behold! The President of 
the United States honors the occasion with his 
presence; he salutes the widow of ^' StoneAvall" 
Jackson, as his carnage passes her home; at the 
grand reception that follows, Mrs. Jackson greets 
him as ^Hhe harmouizer of all our hearts;" with 
the chivalric grace of a second Sir Walter, the 
President protects her during the flo-od that falls 
upon the grand stand, and to complete the picture, 
through his Aide, he asks that the long line of ex- 
Confederates, act not only as his escort, but as his 
guard. What did the President mean by asking 
ex-Confederate veterans to act as his guard? Did 

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CELEBRATION MECKLENBURG DECLARATION 

he fear? No. Did he need them? No, not in 
the conservative South, Well, what did he mean? 
He meant simply this, I reckon, simply this, that 
as he had shown respect for the widow of the 
mighty Confederate Chieftain, so Avonld he testify 
his confidence in those men, who, long ago, in the 
cause they believed to be right, carried their meteor 
flag through the horrors of an hundred pitched 
battles and kissed its tattered folds as it Avent down 
at Appomattox, wet Avitli their tears. 

Notwithstanding the brief remaining space at 
command, mention must be made of the thunderous 
roar of the Presidential salute of twenty-one guns, 
that greeted the Nation 's Chief on the morning of 
the 20th, as his special rolled into Charlotte; of 
the distinguished Committees, many bands, forty 
thousand people; the dominance of '^Old Glory;'' 
the efficient work of Chairman E. B. Moore; the 
splendid order of it all, the vigilance of Chief T. 
M. Christenbury and his corps; the record breaking 
and thrilling work of Chief W. S. Orr and his 
^'fire laddies" on exhibition '^run;" the words of 
wisdom spoken by the President to the colored 
people at Biddle, the presence of distinguished rep- 
resentatives of the greatest newpapers of the coun- 
try, the presence also of distinguished statesmen 
and citizens from other Commonwealths, three of 
the principal ones being. Senator Johnston, Maj. J. 
C. Hemphill, of Charleston, and Lieutenant Governor 
MeCloud of South Carolina. Senator Lee S. Over- 
man, of North Carolina, who has made fame in 
Washington, added his genial smile, perhaps not 
quite so enveloping, as the Ohio variety, to the 
splendid occasion, and then the ladies and the recep- 
tion, but the biggest thing that day, except the 
mighty Ruler of the Republic, was the rain, or 

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CONDENSED FACTS ABOUT THE BRIGHT SPOT 

rather flood, the greatest m these parts in forty 
years, it was a senseless, non-respecting', impertinent 
rain, but unable in its Noahic monopolistic pro- 
clivities to dampen the ardor of the patriots. Men- 
tion, too, must be made of Charlotte's electric 
night-wonders during the Celebration, rivaling 
Butfalo, reaching its climax in a vari-eolored, red, 
white and blue crown of electric lights, suspended 
hundreds of feet above ''Independence Plate," on 
"Independence Square." 

(Enn&ntsf i iffarta About ll|^ IBrtglit g>piit 

Nature has provided Charlotte with the logical 
location for a commercial and manufacturing center; 
it is well supplied Avith cheap power, labor, raw 
material, and convenient avenues for distribution of 
merchandise. 

Water-power which will devolp 1,000,000 electrical 
horse-power lies within GO miles of Charlotte. A 
large portion of this vast energy is developed and 
turning the wheels of many factories. 

The climatic conditions are excellent, conducive to 
good health, and favorable for manufacturing, mak- 
ing possible a low cost of living and moderate Avages 
acceptable. 

The demand for dwelling houses is in excess of 
the supply. In 12 years the telephones have in- 
creased from 130 to 3,100. The annual Postoffice 
receipts are $136,746. 

Seven banks, with total assets of $10,863,02*2. 
Four Building and Loan Associations, with author- 
ized capital of $13,000,000, have enabled Charlotte 
to become a city of home-owners. 

With 34 passenger trains daily and good freight 

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CONDENSED FACTS ABOUT THE BRIGHT SPOT 

facilities, Charlotte is the railroad center of the 
Carolinas. The combined annual freight business of 
Charlotte reaches over $2,000,000. 

Stop-over privileges permitted on tourists' tickets. 
Over 500 traveling men live in Charlotte. 

Charlotte is the recognized center of the Southern 
cotton mill industry. Within 100 miles are 425 
cotton mills, operating 5,511,543 spindles, 120,000 
looms, and representing $±50,000,000 in capital. 

Charlotte is the only city in the United States 
where a contract can be made for the building and 
fitting out complete of a cotton mill or cotton oil 
mill. 

The seven completely equipped machine shops 
and the large mill supply houses make easy the 
obtaining of supplies. 

Twenty-six miles of electric railway, operating 23 
cars; 2 miles more under construction. Electricity 
and gas for light, heat, and cooking. 

A productive agricultural country surrounds Char- 
lotte, traversed by 210 miles of superb macadam 
roads, 21,500 bales of cotton marketed in Charlotte 
annually. 

The 21 cotton mills, 6 trouser factories, 8 machine 
shops, and 3 cotton oil mills have a combined annual 
production of $11,725,000. These four industries 
alone distribute in wages the sum of $1,855,840, 
other concerns paying as much or more. Free from 
labor troubles. 

New $290,000 fire-proof hotel and other excellent 
hosteleries give to Charlotte unsurpassed hotel ac- 
commodations; $125,000 Y. M. C. A.; Auditorium, 
with seating capacity of 4,500; 5 hospitals; 2 
libraries; 62 churches; 6 colleges; 5 preparatory^ 
schools; 16 graded school buildings; 3 daily news- 



CONDENSED FACTS ABOUT THE BRIGHT SPOT 

papers; 12 story office building'; 26 miles of water 
maiiies; 219 hydrants; daily capacity of water 
works, 15,500,000 gallons; daily consumption, 1,550,- 
000 gallons; capacity of standpipe, 715,000 gallons; 
51 miles of sewer; 53 miles of paved and macadam 
streets; 300 arc lights. 
Population, 45,455. 






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loans to real estate in Charlotte 
Township upon a basis of § of 
conservative valuation, and to its 
own shares upon a basis of 90 per 
cent, of amount paid in. The 
finest Savings System ever devised. 

Write for booklet. 



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General Fire 
EXTINGUISHER CO. 



The Grinnell Automatic Sprinkler 

Fire Extinguisher Apparatus 

Steam and Hot Water Heating 

Boiler Connections^ Hydrant Piping 

Wrought and Cast Iron Pipe 

FITTINGS FOR STEAM, WATER and GAS 



Southern Department 

J, W. CONWAY, Manager 

Suite 806-808 Realty Building 
CHARLOTTE, N, C. 



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CHARI.OTTE, - N. C. 

Capital - - - $200,000.00 
Surplus and Profits - $140,000.00 



We invite the accounts of Corpora- 
tions, Firms and Individuals and will 
be pleased to meet or correspond with 
those who contemplate making 
changes or opening new accounts. 



Geo. E. Wilson, - - - President 
Jno. B. Ross, - - Vice-President 
W. C. Wilkinson, - - - Cashier 




AMERICAN TRUST COMPANY 
CHARLOTTE, N. C. 



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American Trust \ 
Company 

Capital and Profits, $500,000.00 



BANKING 

in all branches — accounts of 
firms, corporations and indi- 
viduals solicited on the basis 
of liberal service. : : : 
Four per cent, interest per 
annum paid on time deposits. 
We make a specialty of hand- 
ling Trust funds — acting as 
Trustee, Executor, Adminis- 
trator, Agent, Etc. : : : 



Geo. Stephens, W. H. Wood, 

President Treasurer 

W. S. Lee, Vice-President 

T. S. Franklin, Vice-President 



WM. H. cTVlONTY A. M. GUILLET • 

Being The ONLY PRESSER MAKERS IN THE SOUTH 
Means Your "ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY" 





and Flyer Conipan! 

INCORPORATED 

CHARLOTTE, N. C. 



Over 30 Years as Manufacturers, 
OYERHAULERS and Repairers of 

COTTON MILL MACHINERY 



SPINDLES Repaired and Straightened; STEEL 
ROLLS Re-necked and Re-fluted; Card Room Spin- 
dles RETOPED. 

High Grade PRESSERS; FLYERS Repaired and 
Balanced; REPAIRS and ALTERATIONS. 



SCIENTIFIC LINING AND LEVELING, 






PLUMBING SPINDLES, Etc. 



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The Textile Mill Supply Go. 

CHARLOTTE, N. C. 

Long Distance Phones Nos. 34 and 372 



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I CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA | 



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Built by Whitlock Coil Pipe Co., Hartford, Conn. | 

Pumps and Gondensers 

Built by International Pump Co., New York, N. Y. 

Contracts taken for Complete Power Plants, ^ 

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REALTY BUILDING, Suite 800-806 I 

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POWER plants! 

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Built by 
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Hamilton Corliss Engines I 

Built by Hooven, Owens and Rentschler Co., 4 

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JSO. M. SCOTT, Vice Preside 



J, H. LITTLE, Vice-President 
IV. H. TIVITTY, Cashier 



Charlotte National Bank 

Charlotte, N. C. 

Solicits accounts of individuals, firms, corpor- 
ations, banks and bankers. Pays 4 per cent, 
on time certificates. Pays 4 per cent, com- 
pounded quarterly on savings deposits. 

CORRESPONDENCE INVITED 



One copy del. to Cat. Div. 





Union National Bank 




CHARLOTTE, N. C. 


CAPITAL $100,000 


Organized 1908 


ORF-ICERS 




T. W. WADE, President 




F. B. Mcdowell, Vice-President 




H. M. VICTOR, Cashier 


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GILCHRIST E. A. SMITH 


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LATTA, Jr. A. H. WASHBURN 
T. W. WADE 


Prompt, courteous and confidential attention given 
all business. 


We 


pay 4 per cent, on certificates of deposit. 




H. M. VICTOR, Cashier. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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COMPANY 



FINE COMMERCIAL 



PRINTING 




Designers and Printers of fine Cata- 
logues and Advertising Matter 

Ruling, Binding — Cotton mill blanks 
and blank books made to order 



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